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Meta, Microsoft roar higher on strong earnings as AI spending booms
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Getty Images Shares of Meta soared 12% and Microsoft popped 5% on Thursday, after the companies reported better-than-expected earnings that beat on top and bottom lines. Microsoft topped the $4 trillion market cap benchmark with the move, joining Nvidia in the club. Both Meta and […]
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Microsoft and Amazon are hurting cloud competition, UK regulator finds
Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Thursday declared that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the cloud computing industry and called for a further probe under […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Is India the first to face Trump’s ‘secondary’ tariff on Russia?
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump during the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images In the frenzied run-up to Friday, Aug. 1 — the day when U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs come into effect (no more […]
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OpenAI spearheads one of Europe’s biggest data centers with 100,000 Nvidia chips
Jaque Silva| Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday said it is launching a Stargate-branded AI data center in Norway, marking its first foray into Europe with such a project. British firm Nscale will design and build the site as part of a 50-50 joint venture with Norwegian energy infrastructure firm Aker. OpenAI will be […]
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Nvidia’s China-bound H20 AI chips face Beijing scrutiny over ‘tracking’ and security concerns
China is one of Nvidia’s largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images While Nvidia has been given assurances by Washington that it will be allowed to resume exports of its made-for-China H20 general processing units, the AI chips’ return may be met with increased […]
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Hanwha Ocean shares surge over 16% after U.S.-Korea trade deal
Adie Bush | Connect Images | Getty Images Shares of Hanwha Ocean surged as much as 16.06% on Thursday to their highest levels since July 2015, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a blanket 15% tariff on Seoul’s exports to the U.S. According to Reuters, Kim Dong-kwan, the vice chairman of the Hanwha Group, […]
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Elon Musk’s plan to build Boring Co. tunnels in Nashville sparks partisan feud
Elon Musk has expanded a number of his companies within Texas, including Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Co. and Neuralink. Tesla broke ground on a lithium refinery in Texas earlier this year with Governor Greg Abbott in attendance. Christophe Gateau | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, The Boring Company, announced plans earlier […]
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CNBC Daily Open: The tariff rate you get is not just about your trade policies
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 13, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images In the frenzied run-up to Friday, August 1— the day when U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs come into effect (no […]
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Samsung second-quarter profit more than halves, missing expectations, weighed by slump in chip business
Samsung signage during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Thursday, March 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a second-quarter operating profit of 4.7 trillion Korean won that missed expectations, weighed by U.S. export restrictions on advanced AI chips to China. […]
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Meta’s big AI spending blitz will continue into 2026
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to continue his company’s artificial intelligence spending blitz well into the next year as rival tech giants do the same. […]
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